Health and Social Care Assignment UNIT 2 - PRINCIPLES OF PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT ASSIGNMENT OVERVIEW In this assignment, you will investigate standards that influence adult social care practice. You will look at examples of these standards and how they affect the role of social care workers. Personal development and reflective practice are important for social care workers, and you will be completing tasks that cover these concepts. You will look at the different ways that this is done, how you can benefit from it and who will support you. TASKS There are three task to this assignment. TASK 1 2 3 EVIDENCE Short answer questions Case study Reflective account OUTCOMES 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4 1.2, 1.3 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 TASK 1 Social workers …show more content…
Jenna tells Fatima that she disapproves of some of his ways, which are against her beliefs, but had not realised that this showed in her attitude. 1. Describe how Jenna should ensure that her personal attitudes and beliefs do not affect her work. 3 Health and Social Care Assignment 2. Explain why it is important to reflect on your work activities. TASK 3 1. Think of a learning activity you have taken part in that has improved your knowledge, skills and understanding. The activity may have been a training session, a demonstration of practice, learning a new skill or a research activity. Description of experience How did this experience improve your knowledge, skills and understanding? 4 Health and Social Care Assignment 2. Think of an example of a time you have received feedback from others than has improved your knowledge, skills and understanding. This may have been from your assessor, tutor, a supervisor or line manager, or individuals using the service. Description of experience How did this experience improve your knowledge, skills and understanding? 5 Health and Social Care Assignment I can confirm that the evidence listed for this unit is my own work and was carried out under the conditions and context specified in the assessment specification, through discussion with my VLA and recorded on DVR. LEARNER name
A. There are many potential barriers to communication such as language barriers, it can be hard to communicate with someone who does not understand your language or vice versa. Also cultural differences may be a problem as different communication aids such as touching, eye contact, or tone, which may be acceptable in one culture may not be
Your GP can assess whether you have incontinence, decide which type of incontinence you have, give general advice on controlling symptoms of incontinence, provide information on pelvic floor exercises and bladder retraining, and give treatment for incontinence with prescribed medicines. If lifestyle changes and treatments don't solve the problem, your GP can refer you to a continence adviser or specialist.
and they should be used when doing personal care, handling waste, a change of activity to protect the carer and the individual.
Unit 16 Understand Safeguarding of Children & Young People (for those working in the adult sector) and Unit 14 Safeguarding and Protection of Vulnerable Adults Assignment
Personal development guidance notes on how to write a reflective account qcf health and social care level 2 or 3 unit 2 personal development study aid or guidance notes
Different people look at health in different ways. It can depend on their culture, environment, religion or age group. In order to have a clear understanding about how the people look at health, I have conducted a survey from a random sample of people who belongs to the above groups (e.g. people of different ages have been chosen).
As people get older they lose independence, they become less mobile and aren’t able to do everything for themselves any more. It is important to ensure that they keep as active as they can to ensure they keep their independence for longer.
The definition of health and illness varies across societies due to their differing cultural, social and ethnic beliefs. The description associated with health and illness has been socially constructed so that the view of a medical profession is the most accurate. There is a general conception to think of health habits such as exercise and consuming a healthy diet when the terms health and illness are mentioned. However it is thought that the conditions that determine health changes are heavily based on one’s social conditions as it is seen that diseases occur in patterns. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) “health is a complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity.” Social
Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Analysis of concepts of health, disability, illness and behaviour 2.1 Health behaviour related to Gypsies and Travellers 3. Assessment of the perception of travellers and gypsies and how it has changed over time 3.1 Inequality, accommodational needs 1. Introduction
I have never really focused on the issues that our economy is facing; therefore, I find reading articles like these rather interesting. They provide me with material and questions I would not have looked up before. My favorite quote from the article was, “Monetary policy has been keeping the patient alive, creating the possibility of a lasting cure through fiscal and structural operations,” as stated by BoE Chief. I thought this line to be very funny and blunt. The comparison of the nation to a patient really put into perspective the how tragic our economic system is doing. Also, I have come to belief that people are okay with the monetary policy because it has been providing some relief to our problems, but people must find an actually solution,
The proportion of Britons age 65 and over consists of of 1. 17.4% the UK population. Projections are for 5½ million more elderly people in 20 years time. 2. Each individual ages differently both mentally and physically.
In today’s society social and educational programs and services plays a crucial role in improving health, enhancing the quality of life, preventing disease and injury. These programs and services being fully designed to reach individuals outside of the traditional health care settings. It is important these programs and services are within reach for diverse generations as well as the elderly. This paper focus is on the programs and resources available, the importance of these programs and services, and the preventive education the programs and services provide. Programs The Older American Act of 1965 is an act created to promote well-being for elderly adults.
Social life has been playing a major role recently due to the tidal wave of commitments which can lead to busy daily life. It has countless influences such as on mental health which can put impacts on performance. Several studies reported that having a great social life can lead to lower blood pressure, heart rate and stress (1) . On the other hand, medicine is a primer priority for a medical practitioner's life which carries heavy and serious duties, work rotating during the call on and scheduled shifts. Therefore, this can be a factor contributing in reducing social life.
I have taken Ten concepts for this conceptual learning project from the modules we have studied so far and see how it will applied to a context related to my life, social context , work place , my community and world around me.
Health care is essential for all no matter which country they call theirs and the United States is no exception and provides a good example of how the creation of insurance has grown into a controversial subject for many reasons. Spikes in costs, illegal claims, insider trading, and various other factors contribute to many issues surrounding costs, risks, greed, and ill settled suits are just a few of the issues. Areas such as price ceilings, economical instabilities, and governances contribute to areas afore mentioned. Health care costs have risen steadily for years. “Health care expenditures reported in 2008 exceeded $2.3 trillion” (Miller, nd) this figure reportedly will increase throughout the